Constitutional redemption
Subtitle: political faith in an unjust world
By: Jack M. Balkin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780674058743
Subjects: Constitutional law
Description: Political constitutions, hammered out by imperfect human beings in periods of intense political controversy, are always compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate, argues this book, is Americans' enduring faith that the Constitution's promises can someday be redeemed, and the constitutional system be made "a more perfect union."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Faith and story in American constitutional law; title: Just a story; title: Legitimacy and faith; title: Idolatry and faith; title: Fidelity and faith; title: The law of equality is the law of inequality; title: Wrong the day it was decided; title: How I became an originalist.